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New television series to be launched

I wish to make it plain from the outset of this piece that I personally have not seen a single trailer or even episode of Love Island, the current ‘cause célèbre’ of the reality TV genre – I didn’t even know which channel it was broadcast upon until I googled the answer just now (it was [...]

July 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of staying relevant

On a personal level I am an agnostic on the issue of the British monarchy. On the face of it in the modern age monarchy as a principle seems a monumental anachronism but – as these things go – I’m prepared to accept that the British version, most probably by nothing more than a combination of [...]

July 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Never heard of him – but worth a peak …

Yesterday, confined to quarters miles from anywhere in the countryside, I received a cryptic text from an old school pal: “You must immediately read this article!” it read, followed by (an unusual achievement in his case) a properly-captured and applied ‘link’ to a piece by [...]

July 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Hands up anyone who’s worth a hill of beans

Like most people I came across yesterday, I was fascinated to learn the details of ‘who gets what’ when the BBC published (in bands) the salaries of its presenters and actors who earn 150,000 pounds sterling or more and yet at the same time I also had misgivings about the disclosures. The first [...]

July 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Self-awareness may be a good thing

It’s been a while since I last posted and, if I’m being totally honest, part of the reason for my lack of activity is that I’ve fallen victim to a feeling that I’ve been rendered redundant by events. When joining the Rust staff and seeking to ‘find my own voice’ in order to make a [...]

July 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

What’s a girl to do?

Today I make no apology for addressing ‘Women and Sport’ arena, one of the recurring themes on the Sports pages of the Rust, at a point during the summer season when there is a great deal of elite men and women’s sport going on. We have just witnessed a Wimbledon tournament at which the hand [...]

July 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Shurely not?

Over the last couple of years, I have to confess, I’ve grown a slight liking for sushi food. Before that I’d heard of it from time to time – in the 1980s my brother worked in Japan for a couple of years and developed a taste for it – but the thought of eating raw food had always rather put [...]

July 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

A plague upon them all!

Holding, as I do, a life-long aversion to exercise I have never understood the supposed benefits of travelling anywhere by bicycle. In fact I’d go further than that and mention that I hate all forms of two-wheeled transport and am totally resistant to the arguments put about in the PC-brigade’s [...]

July 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

Getting to the nub of it

No doubt like many Rusters I have been enjoying my periodic dips into the BBC’s consistently excellent radio and television coverage of Wimbledon 2017. Call me old-fashioned, or Neanderthal – or even cod-nostalgic for the days of the British Empire that stretched across the quarter of the [...]

July 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

I didn’t know I had it, but it makes sense

As someone with a lifelong ‘early to bed and early to rise’ habit, I don’t mind admitting that my practice from the age of about fifty had been to rise on the dot of 5.24am, come wind, rain or shine. I didn’t even need to set an alarm clock; somehow it seemed I was programmed to awake at [...]

July 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

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